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The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940

“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.

In 1946, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, stood in front of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare